Blackberry confirms it has no plans to bring BBM to Windows Phone (for now).

Just gonna throw this into the ring... technically, if the BBM team (remember they're kinda their own division/company now) is already developing a desktop BBM experience that's expected to run on Windows, it should also by definition work for (some of) the Surface tablets. And hey! There you have it, BlackBerry is supporting M$'s mobile platform, lol.

In all seriousness though, I think it's just them puffing their chest out right now (not something I'd personally do, but hey...) They could intentionally be using it to leverage more service support from M$, such as a native Skype app, or they could be developing it or already have developed it but not yet ready to announce. I wouldn't just look at the superficial story here.

2. Wp has more market share than BlackBerry and growing very fast so be quite plz. It has more official apps than BlackBerry offer. Microsoft announced Skype app for BlackBerry too so why not be fair?

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Being on Windows phone won't affect the success or failure of BBM. The fact that BBM for iPhone is absolute crap for reliability and consistency and is still not anywhere near feature parity proves there are higher priorities. The fact my friends keep unistalling it is what they should be working on. Comparing BlackBerry, a company shedding half their workforce, to Microsoft, who has tens of thousands of employees and tens of billions in c ash is ridiculous. And the Skype app is a terrible android port.

BBM Not for all... after all. Though I do not own a WP, I hate this kind of attitude. Skype should pull its app and make BB to realize its real position in the market.

If Skype pulls it's BlackBerry 10 app, I'd get my family to switch to BBM once BBM gets voice and video chat for iOS and Android. (My family currently use iPads for Skype or FaceTime for Voice and Video)

BBM Not for all... after all. Though I do not own a WP, I hate this kind of attitude. Skype should pull its app and make BB to realize its real position in the market.

I hope Skype does pull its app... and from Android, too. That will show BBRY. With the latest leaks and all, I really don't see much use for Android ports in the near future.

From all the news/rumors I've been reading, seems to me they're already working on BBM for Windows; just don't have any plans to release BBM for WP8 until other supported platforms are performing better (conjecture). At least, that's what I'm hoping for. My dept has iOS, Android, BB10, and WP8 represented so I want BBM to be available for WP8, too.

Don't worry about Windows Phone. BBM is not nearly as sought after as the Crackberry populace implies. And in the impoverished Asian countries where Windows Phone has >10% market share that Jakarta is targeting, it's Blackberry's loss. *shrug*

So BlackBerry itself is adopting the attitude most big name developers hold against BlackBerry for being not worth the effort. How disappointing.

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The difference is that BlackBerry is focusing on restoring itself, and bringing BBM to windows cost $$$, while other companies have the resources to do stuff like that yet they don't do it.
I don't blame BlackBerry for it. Let Chen Chen do his thing to restore the company, then let's see what's gonna happen about BBM for wp

It seems BlackBerry has no Plan to bring BBM to WP. I think I have to switch to another Messaging app. I use Lumia 1520 and Z10 and i only carry the Z10 because I use BBM. It's annoying to carry 2 phones. I will sell my Z10 and switch to another Services. Very sad.

WP is DOA as it is to little too late for them. No reason for BlackBerry or any dev to create an app for an obsolete OS. I don't know a single person who has a WP as the one person I did know returned it for lack of app.

Microsoft will have to realize once they lose enough money that it is to little too late which BlackBerry painfully learned. Microsoft has more money to lose and that's what they will do until they wake up. I'm not joking when I say I do not know anyone with a WP. Android is king and Everyone else will fight for scraps.

Windows is growing its market share and BBM shouldn't miss that. BBM is already late on IOS and Android. Also, Windows phone is gaining market share in emerging markets where many people are buying smartphones for the first time. It will be much easier for Blackberry to get these users hooked on to BBM than to make them switch later on once they are addicted to some other instant messenger. Being already late to the party, Blackberry needs to be proactive here. One more thing Blackberry needs to understand is that of if one person in a group can't communicate on BBM because of lack of support than entire group shifts to an app supported on all platforms.

Microsoft will have to realize once they lose enough money that it is to little too late which BlackBerry painfully learned. Microsoft has more money to lose and that's what they will do until they wake up. I'm not joking when I say I do not know anyone with a WP. Android is king and Everyone else will fight for scraps.

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You are totally wrong here. Windows phone is gaining market share in many markets, including Europe, where in many countries it's in double digits now. Windows is targeting lower end of the market with Lumia 520 where it has been very successful . One could buy Lumia 520 for $60 in the states. This phone has offline GPS from Nokia with all the updates. This feature alone is worth the price. I think Windows is going to gain tremendous market share in coming years.

WP is DOA as it is to little too late for them. No reason for BlackBerry or any dev to create an app for an obsolete OS. I don't know a single person who has a WP as the one person I did know returned it for lack of app.

wow. people here are so against WP. most likely cause they took BB's place. This is the same attitude that BB irrelevant in the first place. Skype is about to get FULLY backed into WP8.1 and they are constantly adding new features. . How can BB compete with that when Skype is super popular on WP, Android, IOS and BB10?

By opening up to WP they will have even more users on android / iPhone / BlackBerry itself because all of us have that one friend who uses a WP and at this point it is only whatsapp a service that is that cross platform!

This news stinks but people have been choosing their phones for years with app ecosystem in mind. If BBM is really that important to them then they'll stay away from wp devices. Same way blackberry lost tons because of lack of Instagram, Netflix, Skype and others.